The Donald’s Healthcare “Reform” “Plan”

The Donald’s Healthcare “Reform” “Plan”

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TL;DR- Repeal Obamacare, kick poor people off Medicaid, shift costs to states, do a bunch of stuff Obamacare did, keep doing other stuff already do, construct an illusion of "free markets" in an oligopoly, incentivize future mega-mergers for insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies in the "free market", and block grant Medicare and Social Security. The guy who Republicans are screaming is "not a Republican!" sounds a lot like, well, a Republican.
Thursday Open Thread [3.3.16]

Thursday Open Thread [3.3.16]

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Matt Yglesias says that after Super Tuesday, only a Democrat can stop Trump.
Donald Trump's ongoing evisceration of the Republican Party establishment has earned him a reputation in some circles as a Teflon-coated magician, a politician whose mind meld with the American people is so strong it makes him immune to attack. He's not. [...] The fact is that Trump has triumphed in Republican Party primaries because the Republican Party is incapable of mounting effective resistance to him, not because effective resistance is impossible. Their strategies have failed because highlighting his real weaknesses would put them on ground that is too uncomfortable given the ideological rigidity of the GOP structure and the biases of rank-and-file Republicans. But the plain, obvious truth is that Trump is running a racist campaign based on an unimpressive record in business and bad public policy ideas. Yet the pathologies of the Republican Party make it impossible for them to mount this argument in an effective way. That's why to stop Trump, his opponent is going to have to be a Democrat — realistically, Hillary Clinton though in principle Bernie Sanders or someone one would work.
Go read the whole thing. Yglesias lists all the reasons Trump is a horrible candidate that will be beaten. Should we underestimate him? No. Should we be complacent? No. But Trump is not some unstoppable juggernaut. He is the most flawed Presidential candidate ever to (presumptively) garner a major party's nomination in all history.